Bloemfontein, sentence 176
From Wikipedia, «Bloemfontein», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The N1, a major highway running roughly SW to NE from Cape Town to Johannesburg, Pretoria and Zimbabwe largely bypasses the city centre to the west as the Bloemfontein Western Bypass.
Who acts: major highway, N1 · What happens: run, bypass · To what, where: SW, NE, city centre
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bloemfontein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (major highway, N1), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 N1 | det |
| 2 | N1 | N1 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bypasses | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 highway | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 highway | det |
| 5 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 highway | amod |
| 6 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bypasses | nsubj |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 highway | acl |
| 8 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 9 SW | advmod |
| 9 | SW | SW | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 NE | case |
| 11 | NE | NE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | compound |
| 14 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 NE | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Johannesburg | case |
| 16 | Johannesburg | Johannesburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pretoria | punct |
| 18 | Pretoria | Pretoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Johannesburg | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Zimbabwe | cc |
| 20 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Johannesburg | conj |
| 21 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 22 bypasses | advmod |
| 22 | bypasses | bypass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 centre | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 centre | compound |
| 25 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bypasses | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 west | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 west | det |
| 28 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bypasses | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 Bypass | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Bypass | det |
| 31 | Bloemfontein | Bloemfontein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Bypass | compound |
| 32 | Western | Western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Bypass | amod |
| 33 | Bypass | Bypass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 west | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bypasses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | a major highway not said here | SW | NE from Cape Town | to Johannesburg and Pretoria and Zimbabwe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ne=Result | ||
| 2 | bypass | present | the N1 | the city centre | to the west as the Bloemfontein Western Bypass; a major highway nsubj; largely property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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